I am happy to release Roe V. Wade into the ethers. And I’ll even throw in social security. Who needs them! But this is what we, the sane, get in return:
1. Every single state gets to make its own laws. Abortion laws. Execution laws. Gun laws. Gay marriage laws. Drug laws. Education laws. Health care laws. Retirement income laws. And programs (or lack of programs) to enforce and put into real affect the laws to support the social structure (or lack of structure) of the citizens of each state.
2. This is how these programs will be paid for: After filling out your yearly income tax return, 30% of your TOTAL taxes due will go to the United States Federal government for their bombs, their bigger bombs and the other bombs they need because all the other bombs they have don’t make them feel safe enough. The rest of your taxes, 70%, you apportion to your state for the PROGRAMS listed above and to the federal government, however you see fit. I imagine people will give most of the money to their home state. I sure would. I hate bombs.
Over time, each state will develop a unique social contract with its citizens and will compete with other states for population. People who want to move to Wyoming where you can carry a gun in your holster, kill a fag, let sick people drop dead if they’re poor, and shove their aging citizens into grinders for their pig feed, well, those people can move there.
People who want to live in Massachusetts where you can have your health care covered, your gay children respected, your retirement assured and an odd lack of bullets flying overhead, well, they can move on in, for the social safety net, the better jobs, a solid library system and decent, well patrolled brothels.
People really need to live where they want to live. They need to have what they want to have. And there needs to be money (or lack of) for a lifestyle of their choosing.
Why should the good citizens of the United States give all their hard earned money to a federal government that does nothing but wage war for the sake of corporate greed? The hard earned money should be spent on the citizens. For their health and well being. Or, if that is not what someone wants, they can give all their tax money to the federal government for their wars, move to South Dakota and have sixteen babies and watch them grow up so they can shoot each other dead with their rifles.
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States Rights. This sounds oddly Republican and yet I have come to the same conclusion. Let the red states go about their own silly business. Unfortunately, over 20% of your federal tax dollars go to pay the interest on the national debt. So they'd only get 10% for bombs. Oh well.
Oh and I forgot - those of us in the Blue States would be really rich. Most of the federal tax revenue comes from US (and goes to them). If you want more of this in the same vein (one of my favorite rants), check this out:
http://www.fuckthesouth.com/
I just heard about this novel, Ecotopia, that imagines what would happen if California, Oregon and Washington seceded to form their own eco-friendly state. And it is nice to imagine. I just can't help but want a couple of federal laws to protect the one of those 16 babies that is a big flaming queer and too poor to move outside South Dakota.
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